ever try to smother
these by your silence, simply because they failed to do theological
goose-step on your order, as your bum-beadles marked time with their
staves?

Oh! ye cities and nations, cherish, I pray you, the names of your heroes
in business, art, finance and poetry, for only by them and through them
shall the future know you. Have a care, ye cities! for the treatment
that ye accord to these, living, and to their memories, dead, is but the
telltale record of your own heart and brain!

* * * * *

Benjamin Franklin founded the Philadelphia Public Library, the
Philadelphia Hospital, the Philadelphia Orphan Asylum and the University
of Pennsylvania.

Franklin was also much interested in good roads, the building of
canals--steam-railroads were then, of course, a dream unguessed.

Girard got his philanthropic impetus from Franklin. Girard had watched
the progress of the University of Pennsylvania, and he had become
convinced that it fell short of doing the good it might do. It shot too
high.

Franklin had a beautiful contempt for Harvard. He called it a social
promotion plan, and thereby got the lasting enmity of John Adams and his
son, John Quincy Adams, and also of John Hancock.

Franklin had hoped to make the University of Pennsylvania a different
school. But after his death it followed in exactly the Harvard lines. It
fitted prosperous youth for the professions, but it left the orphan and
the outcast to struggle with the demons of darkness, discarded and
forgotten. Girard founded his college with the idea of helping the
helpless. Thomas Jefferson, also, had impressed Girard greatly. Girard
once made a trip to Monticello; and he spent two days at the University
of Virginia. This was really remarkable, for time with Girard was a very
precious commodity.

Thomas Jefferson was the man who introduced classic architecture into
America. All of those great white pillars that front the mansions of
Virginia, and in fact of the whole South, had their germ in the brain of
Jefferson, who reveled in all that was Greek. Jefferson was a composite
of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, and if Socrates was not the first
Jeffersonian Democrat, then who was?

Socrates dwelt on the rights and virtues of the "demos"--the Common
People. Jefferson uses the expression again and again, and was the one
man to popularize the word "Democrat." When Jefferson, wearing his suit
of butternut homespun, rode h